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Thread #64837   Message #1063483
Posted By: ard mhacha
01-Dec-03 - 03:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: Northern Ireland What a Joke
Subject: RE: BS: Northern Ireland What a Joke
The facts speak for themselves, personation in this Election was nigh on impossible, every voter had to have photographic identification,all that old talk of , vote early, vote often, is long past.
Here are some of the voting figures from the Election,
Newry and Armagh turnout, 70.2%, down 7.1%, Mid-Ulster turnout 74%, down 10.4%. Upper Bann turnout 64.2%, down 8.1%, North Down turnout 54.5%, down 5.7%, even Ian Paisley`s North Antrim was down 5.7% per cent. In FACT every constituency was down.

Living here as I do, the talk was of sporting matters, the weather etc, never before was there less interest in this shambles of an Election, the outcome was well known in advance, you did not have to be a political expert to know this.

A long period of rule from Westminister will be the outcome and there should be a big reduction in the MLA`s £40,000 per annum pay. Ard Mhacha.